Morning Update: Revisiting thalidomide survivors | Unpublished
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Author: Erin Anderssen
Publication Date: December 12, 2025 - 06:11

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Morning Update: Revisiting thalidomide survivors

December 12, 2025

Good morning. The Globe spoke with thalidomide survivors about how their lives have changed 10 years after a settlement with the Canadian government. More on that below, along with news on Costco patriotism and Time’s person(s) of the year. But first:

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A Toronto woman says her luggage was tossed out of a vehicle by an Uber driver when he heard her speaking Hebrew to her husband. The driver then refused to take them home from the airport after they arrived from a trip in the middle of the night in February. Shiri Gabriel’s snub at Toronto Pearson airport brings the number of antisemitic acts involving the rideshare company and Torontonians to three. In August, David Woolf, 78, who splits his time between Toronto and Israel, said an Uber driver in Europe refused to take him, his wife and their friends to a train station, because he...
December 12, 2025 - 07:30 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
The first segment of Canada's proposed high-speed rail network would connect Montreal and Ottawa, according to Radio-Canada. Federal Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon is expected to make the announcement this morning.
December 12, 2025 - 07:28 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Across Canada, there are millions of dollars worth of U.S.-made alcoholic products gathering dust in warehouses, all of it pulled from liquor store shelves in most provinces in retaliation for sweeping U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports. If the idea of some of those products finding their way back to market leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, let the knowledge that several provinces are doing so to benefit local charities be the chaser. Here’s the latest on what Canadian provinces are doing with their U.S. booze stockpiles. Nova Scotia Atlantic Canada’s most populous province was...
December 12, 2025 - 07:00 | Kenn Oliver | National Post